ered the party upon the hill, and the main army
of the Hellenes now advanced with less difficulty towards it--the
barbarians being terrified at seeing their men on that side driven from
the height and no longer following the main body, who, they considered,
had gained the frontier and made good their escape. The heights once
gained, Brasidas now proceeded more securely, and the same day arrived
at Arnisa, the first town in the dominions of Perdiccas. The soldiers,
enraged at the desertion of the Macedonians, vented their rage on all
their yokes of oxen which they found on the road, and on any baggage
which had tumbled off (as might easily happen in the panic of a night
retreat), by unyoking and cutting down the cattle and taking the baggage
for themselves. From this moment Perdiccas began to regard Brasidas as
an enemy and to feel against the Peloponnesians a hatred which could
not be congenial to the adversary of the Athenians. However, he departed
from his natural interests and made it his endeavour to come to terms
with the latter and to get rid of the former.

On his return from Macedonia to Torone, Brasidas found the Athenians
already masters of Mende, and remained quiet where he was, thinking
it now out of his power to cross over into Pallene and assist the
Mendaeans, but he kept good watch over Torone. For about the same time
as the campaign in Lyncus, the Athenians sailed upon the expedition
which we left them preparing against Mende and Scione, with fifty ships,
ten of which were Chians, one thousand Athenian heavy infantry and six
hundred archers, one hundred Thracian mercenaries and some targeteers
drawn from their allies in the neighbourhood, under the command of
Nicias, son of Niceratus, and Nicostratus, son of Diitrephes. Weighing
from Potidaea, the fleet came to land opposite the temple of Poseidon,
and proceeded against Mende; the men of which town, reinforced by three
hundred Scionaeans, with their Peloponnesian auxiliaries, seven hundred
heavy infantry in all, under Polydamidas, they found encamped upon a
strong hill outside the city. These Nicias, with one hundred and twenty
light-armed Methonaeans, sixty picked men from the Athenian heavy
infantry, and all the archers, tried to reach by a path running up
the hill, but received a wound and found himself unable to force the
position; while Nicostratus, with all the rest of the army, advancing
upon the hill, which was naturally difficult, by a different